JUST WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING TO PRESERVE ANYWAY?By Rein D. Gillstrom (11/23/09)TO ALL THOSE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES CONSERVATIVES . . . OF THE “AMERICAN SORTS.”Please consider the following research on the “OPENING PREAMBLE SENTENCES” for each of the 50 States of...
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Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and his wife, Erin Ravenstahl, have announced their decision to separate. Erin Ravenstahl asked the public to respect their privacy and that of their one-year-old son, Cooper. Luke...
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Friday, November 20 is Pittsburgh's annual Light Up Night. Over 200,000 people are expected to attend tonight's festival, which marks the kick-off date to Pittsburgh's holiday season. Plans for Light Up...
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Bengals OL Bobbie Williams dropped his pants and exposed his butt for a few seconds, a moment of infamy that should probably die out by week 11 (hopefully for his sake). Football pants have always seemed too tight...
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Michael Wallschlaeger and a friend were arrested and charged by the FBI for allegedly directing protests at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in September/09. "The FBI has accused a US citizen of using the Internet to...
There were plenty of big playing during the fourth quarter of the Pittsburgh Steelers vs Minnesota Vikings game. There was the Percy Harvin touchdown, which took down a referee. But perhaps the most impressive...
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There were a lot of big play during the Minnesota Vikings vs Pittsburgh Steelers game, and one of the biggest plays featured Percy Harvin running a kickoff back for a touchdown. The Vikings touchdown cut the...
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Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Jeff Reed was arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct outside a Pittsburgh bar. Reed was with Steelers teammate Matt Spaeth who spotted by police urinating in public. Reed was allegedly leaving McFadden's Bar with teammate Matt...
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Stephen Harper has a controversial vision for Canada's future but that is less worrying than his dubious sense of the country's history. This week he said: ""We also have no history of colonialism. So we have...
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Blogger Gideon Rachman found the Pittsburgh G20 gave a perfect opportunity to compare and contrast President Obama with French President Sarkozy. In light of recent allegations that Sarkozy "emasculated"...
The massive police presence at the People's March on Friday made many protesters feel they were in a "police state". Area police upped their numbers and added riot squads in the Oakland area of the city....
President Obama said today that he and the other G-20 leaders "brought the global economy back from the brink." When I read this quote from President Obama, my mouth flew open, my eyes sunk toward the back...
A video which shows police chasing a group of University of Pittsburgh students and then chemically spraying them has some questioning if such methods constituted excessive force. (See VIDEO)
At the close of the G20 conference in Pittsburgh, PA Friday, President Obama gave his concluding remarks, thanking the city of Pittsburgh, and asserting that the global economy has been held...
Amidst the sensationalistic protest at Pittsburgh, the real story is that the G8 has turned into the G20, as far as coordinating global financial issues. The G8 meeting planned in Ontario June 2010, will now be...